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ADD is becoming RISE Life Services! Our new name more accurately describes how we raise the quality of life for those we serve. Help us in sharing a warm welcome to our newest IRA home, site #32, located in Middle Island in Suffolk County. The team worked hard to help everything come together and make [...]

ADD is becoming RISE Life Services! Our new name more accurately describes how we raise the quality of life for those we serve. Join RISE Life Services and our Mental Health Department in the #4Mind4Body Challenge this month. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and has been observed in the United States since 1949, reaching [...]

We are very pleased to share that we have implemented a ‘Green Initiative’ and we have added solar energy panels at two of our homes, Horseshoe Drive and Roanoke Avenue. The installation is already producing amazing results. After tracking the site’s PSEG electric bills for January, February and March of 2018, the energy costs have [...]

Press Release - April 23, 2018: Aid to the Developmentally Disabled (ADD), was recently awarded $2,500 from People's United Community Foundation, the philanthropic arm of People’s United Bank, for the recently expanded ADD Community Food Pantry in Riverhead. The Community Food Pantry – located at 901 East Main Street, Suite 500 in Riverhead– is open [...]

Aid to the Developmentally Disabled (ADD) is thrilled to introduce you to our new day program, The Main Street Connection. It is a program unlike any other with a special focus on community integration. At Main Street Connection, the individuals involved get to choose the details of their day and set the activities of which [...]

A Northville Sensory Gardens Feature It is spring once again and the Northville Sensory Gardens are bustling with activity. “It seems like everything happens in spring because it does!” said Ken Friberg, ecology farm caretaker. We turn our spotlight to the Gardens now not only because of spring, but because of a special member of [...]

Aid to the Developmentally Disabled (ADD) has an amazing team of people, who make a powerful and positive difference every day in people’s lives. We’d like you to meet our staff members and learn more about them. This week, we introduce you to Ariel Cruz, residential manager at the Aquebogue residence. Ms. Cruz has worked [...]

Aid to the Developmentally Disabled (ADD) has an amazing team of people, who make a powerful and positive difference every day in people’s lives. We’d like you to meet our staff members and learn more about them. This week, we introduce you to Jillian Jeffrey, training coordinator. We interviewed Jillian to help get to know [...]

To say the guests of the 4th Annual Shamrock Shindig had fun this past Thursday, would be an understatement. There was an energy at the Long Island Aquarium that night, which began when you stepped inside the door. Strawberry Fields delivered and really rocked! The dance floor was full and the authentic Beatles sound, look [...]